Aphabetic letter pairs in words

QD - Qdoba

QE =Qetesh

QF = waqf

QG: Aqgonbad (a village in Iran)

QH = Brecqhou

one of the Channel Islands

QI: Iraqi

QJ = QJEC

Quarterly Journal of Economic Commerce

QK = Qkumber (iPhone app)

N/m

QL - Qliphoth

QM: qmail

QN = Iraqnophobia

fear of Iraq

QO - Qophs (19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

QP = Qpoint (A German company specializing in high temperature textile technology.)

QR: SPQR (initialism standing for Senātus Populus que Rōmānus - “The Roman Senate and People”, or more freely as “The Senate and People of Rome”; commonly used Roman phrase referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic)

I suppose an ancient acronym is better than a modern one, unless someone can come up with a single word…

QS- tranqs

A legit word; “tranq” (short for tranquilizer) is a noun in the dictionary

We skipped one.

QQ - qqaballah, a variant spelling of qabala (cabala, qaballa, kabalah, etc.) Source: Beyond Language by Dmitri A. Borgmann.

QR - Shuqrah, a town in Yemen.

QT = Q-tip

QU = question

QV = Lundqvist, common surname in Sweden, along with many other -qvist names.

QW: Qwerty